24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
G5590
ψυχή
psuche
psoo-khay'
Noun Feminine
from G5594; breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew H5315, H7307 and H2416):--heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.
- breath
- the breath of life
- the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing 1a
- of animals 1a
- the breath of life
- of men
- life
- that in which there is life
- a living being, a living soul
- the soul
- the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions (our heart, soul etc.)
- the (human) soul in so far as it is constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life
- the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death (distinguished from other parts of the body)
Strong's Number G5590 Bible Verses
H2416
חַי
chay
khah'-ee
from H2421; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:--+ age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
adj
- living, alive
- green (of vegetation)
- flowing, fresh (of water)
- lively, active (of man)
- reviving (of the springtime) n m
- relatives
- life (abstract emphatic)
- life
- sustenance, maintenance n f
- living thing, animal
- animal
- life
- appetite
- revival, renewal
- community
Strong's Number H2416 Bible Verses
H2417
חַי
chay
khah'-ee
Adjective
(Aramaic) from H2418; alive; also (as noun in plural) life:--life, that liveth, living.
- alive, living, life
Strong's Number H2417 Bible Verses
H2421
חָיָה
chayah
khaw-yaw'
Verb
a primitive root (compare H2331, H2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive:--keep (leave, make) alive, × certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), × surely, be whole.
- to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health
- (Qal)
- to live 1a
- to have life 1a
- to continue in life, remain alive 1a
- to sustain life, to live on or upon 1a
- to live (prosperously)
- to revive, be quickened 1a
- from sickness 1a
- from discouragement 1a
- from faintness 1a
- from death
- (Piel)
- to preserve alive, let live
- to give life
- to quicken, revive, refresh 1b
- to restore to life 1b
- to cause to grow 1b
- to restore 1b
- to revive
- (Hiphil)
- to preserve alive, let live
- to quicken, revive 1c
- to restore (to health) 1c
- to revive 1c
- to restore to life
- (Qal)
Strong's Number H2421 Bible Verses
H5315
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
neh'-fesh
Noun Feminine
from H5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental):--any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-)contented, × fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, × would have it.
- soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
- that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
- living being
- living being (with life in the blood)
- the man himself, self, person or individual
- seat of the appetites
- seat of emotions and passions
- activity of mind
- dubious
- activity of the will
- dubious
- activity of the character
- dubious
Strong's Number H5315 Bible Verses